Emergency Demonstration by Derry Branch of Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
'Israel is given full impunity to carry out these war crimes by the international community'
The Derry Branch of Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign is holding an Emergency Demonstration.
The event is taking place on Friday (July 7), at Free Derry Corner, at 6.30pm, in response to the "brutal invasion of Jenin, the huge increase in settler violence and the anti-boycott bill which is currently making its way through Parliament".
The organisation said: "The Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin has been under siege by Israeli Occupation forces who carried out a brutal onslaught, killing 11 Palestinians including 3 children, bombing from the air, destroying countless homes and properties, attacking hospitals, ambulances.
"Destroying roads and infrastructure leaving the refugee camp without electricity and running water. 1000s of residents have been displaced, making them refugees all over again.
"Israel is given full impunity to carry out these war crimes by the international community even in the face of a mountain of evidence from renowned Human Rights Organisations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Israeli groups B’tSelem and Yesh Din.
"We must use the power we have as citizens to influence our political representatives at local and wider levels to push governments to impose long overdue sanctions against this apartheid state."